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Core commitments for field trials of gene drive organisms

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory
dc.creator Long, Kanya C.
dc.creator Alphey, Luke
dc.creator Annas, George J.
dc.creator Bloss, Cinnamon S.
dc.creator Campbell, Karl J.
dc.creator Champer, Jackson
dc.creator Chen, Chun-Hong
dc.creator Choudhary, Amit
dc.creator Church, George M.
dc.creator Collins, James P.
dc.creator Cooper, Kimberly L.
dc.creator Delborne, Jason A.
dc.creator Edwards, Owain R.
dc.creator Emerson, Claudia I.
dc.creator Esvelt, Kevin Michael
dc.creator Evans, Sam Weiss
dc.creator Friedman, Robert M.
dc.creator Gantz, Valentino M.
dc.creator Gould, Fred
dc.creator Hartley, Sarah
dc.creator Heitman, Elizabeth
dc.creator Hemingway, Janet
dc.creator Kanuka, Hirotaka
dc.creator Kuzma, Jennifer
dc.creator Lavery, James V.
dc.creator Lee, Yoosook
dc.creator Lorenzen, Marce
dc.creator Lunshof, Jeantine E.
dc.creator Marshall, John M.
dc.creator Messer, Philipp W.
dc.creator Montell, Craig
dc.creator Oye, Kenneth A.
dc.creator Palmer, Megan J.
dc.creator Papathanos, Philippos Aris
dc.creator Paradkar, Prasad N.
dc.creator Piaggio, Antoinette J.
dc.creator Rasgon, Jason L.
dc.creator Rašić, Gordana
dc.creator Rudenko, Larisa
dc.creator Saah, J. Royden
dc.creator Scott, Maxwell J.
dc.creator Sutton, Jolene T.
dc.creator Vorsino, Adam E.
dc.creator Akbari, Omar S.
dc.date 2021-08-31T14:11:00Z
dc.date 2021-08-31T14:11:00Z
dc.date 2020-12
dc.date 2021-08-24T13:41:21Z
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:05:57Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:05:57Z
dc.identifier 0036-8075
dc.identifier 1095-9203
dc.identifier https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/131220
dc.identifier Long, Kanya C. et al. "Core commitments for field trials of gene drive organisms." Science 370, 6523 (December 2020): 1417-1419. © 2020 American Association for the Advancement of Science
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/278740
dc.description Gene drive organisms (GDOs), whose genomes have been genetically engineered to spread a desired allele through a population, have the potential to transform the way societies address a wide range of daunting public health and environmental challenges. The development, testing, and release of GDOs, however, are complex and often controversial. A key challenge is to clarify the appropriate roles of developers and others actively engaged in work with GDOs in decision-making processes, and, in particular, how to establish partnerships with relevant authorities and other stakeholders. Several members of the gene drive community previously proposed safeguards for laboratory experiments with GDOs (1) that, in the absence of national or international guidelines, were considered essential for responsible laboratory work to proceed. Now, with GDO development advancing in laboratories (2–5), we envision similar safeguards for the potential next step: ecologically and/or genetically confined field trials to further assess the performance of GDOs. A GDO's propensity to spread necessitates well-developed criteria for field trials to assess its potential impacts (6). We, as a multidisciplinary group of GDO developers, ecologists, conservation biologists, and experts in social science, ethics, and policy, outline commitments below that we deem critical for responsible conduct of a field trial and to ensure that these technologies, if they are introduced, serve the public interest.
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en
dc.publisher American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abd1908
dc.relation Science
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike
dc.rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.source Prof. Esvelt via Elizabeth Soergel
dc.title Core commitments for field trials of gene drive organisms
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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